Star Wars:The Bad Batch
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The A-Team of Star Wars but with the plot of Three Men and a Baby (1987).
The Bad Batch follows the exploits of Clone Force 99, a team of clone troopers with advantageous genetic defects. They're the Republic's meta Kill Team, complete with Slasha Boy, Snipa Boy, Breacha Boy, Comms Boy, Mek Boy, and a useless whiny Grot endearing little tagalong named Omega.
YE BE WARNED, THAR BE SKUB AHOY
Omega is a clone. A comparatively old, early clone that wasn't subjected to age acceleration. Also she's a gurl.
Yes, apparently early in the development of the clone troopers the Kaminoans got weird and decided to try making a sex-flipped Jango. So she's a leftover lab experiment that is apparently important for reasons. But she's blond and stupid so her extra X-chromosome is probably from Maketh Tua. So she's pretty much Star War's equivalent of X-23/Laura Kinney, but without fighting skills, powers or anything that made X-23 cool...alright, she HAS gotten an energy bow and seems to have inherited Jango's shooting skills to a point, but still not nearly as awesome as X-23.
Season 1
The first season is mostly a sixteen episode escort quest with a lot of side-quests thrown in. Tarkin decides that genetically engineered super soldiers aren't unscrupulous enough to bring the Emperor's peace to the galaxy and saw the Bad Batch in particular as even more of liability once he learned that they weren't entirely brainwashed into complete obedience by Order 66. Now out of a job and with a bounty on their heads, the Bad Batch bum around the outer rim doing dirty work for a granny dinosaur mob boss while protecting Omega from the Kaminoans and the Empire.
The Twi'leks rise up and Hera Syndula begins her slide from sheltered daughter of nobility to captain mom, hero of the rebellion. The season ends with the empire telling the Kaminoans to get rekd and making Mount Tantiss and its cloning facilities from the Star Wars: Legends canon again.
Similar to Rebels before it, not as beloved as The Clone Wars, but also better than Resistance. Your tolerance threshold for gullible tagalong kids and sidequests will probably inform how much you like this one. For the Republic Commando fans, it does sneak in a guest appearance from Scorch, but we still haven't gotten a full-on Delta Squad Vs. Bad Batch fight yet.
Season 2
Is in the works. Stay tuned...
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| About: | The Franchise, The Setting, The Movies, The Video Games |
| Television Shows: | The Clone Wars, Rebels, Resistance, The Mandalorian, The Bad Batch, Disney + Originals |
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| Miniature: | X-Wing, Armada, Legion |
| Tabletop: | Rebellion |
| Roleplaying: | FFG, WotC (d20), WEG (d6) |